On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 23:39 +0100, drago01 wrote:
But we currently have two different tools which have to try and get the tricky work to make an image BIOS *and* UEFI *and* Mac bootable right, plus we have to make the image do that right when it's dd'ed.
dd itself should be really the last resort we should use more user friendly tools (we have them in gnome-disk-utilty for instance) ... dd is pretty dangerous if you get the device name wrong (sdb instead of sdc or something) ... boom.
I meant a tool that just writes the image file, dd-style. Not literally dd itself. If you read the wiki page, dd is suitably buried (except for OS X, where it's all we've got.)